Description: The most authoritative account of a pivotal event in legal and cultural history: the trials of Oscar Wilde on charges of "gross indecency"
Review Quotes: "[A] rich, compellingly told, meticulously researched and generously illustrated volume."--Simon J. James, Review of English Studies
"Magisterial. . . . It is difficult to overstate the powerful and illuminating effect of reading this painstaking account of the legal injury inflicted on Wilde."--Sean O'Toole, Modern Philology "Bristow's Oscar Wilde on Trial is a thorough, rewarding, and deeply compassionate study of a dark and significant chapter in Victorian queer history."--Ethan Evans, British Association of Victorian Studies Newsletter "Oscar Wilde on Trial represents a major contribution to Wilde studies. Joseph Bristow has amassed and synthesized an extraordinary amount of material and presented it lucidly and cogently."--Simon Stern, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Law and Humanities "There is no doubt that Oscar Wilde on Trial will be the most thorough, the most comprehensive, and the most revealing account of the trials that has yet appeared."--John Stokes, author of Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles, and Imitations